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What Is a Cigarette?
To smoke a cigarette, the end is lit and the smoke is inhaled."
What’s in Cigarettes?
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Depending on the key in of cigarette, ingredients vary somewhat.
They were required to do this because of a federal court ruling.
Hand-rolled or roll-your-own cigarettes use loose tobacco.
History of Cigarettes
The Maya may have been the first people to smoke tobacco in the Americas.
Smoking was not a daily activity; rather, it was a special ritual filled with meaning.
By 1950, the per person consumption of cigarettes was 2,000 per year.
Surgeon General published a report about the dangers of smoking.
There are other types of cigarettes, in addition to traditional manufactured cigarettes as well.
While these are different, according to the American Cancer Society, there is no safe form of tobacco.
What Are E-Cigarettes?
6.68 million [86.9%] of 7.69 million deaths attributable to smoking tobacco use were among current smokers.
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